Keep your freedom.

We are free.

But some people freely choose their chains.

Discipline equals freedom.

Free to make choices

You are free to make choices.

Your life will be the result of those choices.

Make ones you won’t regret.

Make choices you have been delaying.

Make the ones you know are good for you.

Stay between bored and anxious.

If you are doing things that are too easy you get bored.

If you are trying to do things that are beyond your ability all the time, you are anxious and overly stressed.

But if you are doing things that are challenging but doable, you are growing and feeling good about it.

What are you doing?

Discover your purpose

You were born with a certain set of attributes that are perfectly matched to an important mission here.

You don’t create the meaning of your life – you discover what it already is.

Do you feel you are doing the work you were made to do?

If you are angry and want to fight…

Don’t make your life worse.

If you are angry and want to fight, think on it for three days before taking action.

If you are angry and compose an email or text, think on it for three days before doing so.

How can you add value?

Ask your boss/manager/leader – “What are the top two ways someone like me can add value to you and the company?  What are the top ways I can help the organization?  Please tell me whether you think I can do it or not.”

What a question!  You may have to give your boss a day to think on it and give you the best answer.  If you get a real answer, it is the key to your moving up.  

If you get the answer and don’t know how to do it, find out!  Study.  Learn.  

Some work is necessary, but can be done by many people.

Some work is highly valuable because it moves the needle, and not many people understand it or know how to do it.

Find out what that valuable work is, and figure out how to deliver it – no matter how long it takes.

Reliability is a valued superpower

Being there when you say you will be….doing what you said you will do….giving help when it is needed…. delivering results consistently…

Reliability is a superpower.

And by being reliable, people will appreciate it, and you will likely get more opportunities.

Everyone who disagrees with you believes they are correct.

Isn’t that something?  

If they didn’t think they were correct, they wouldn’t disagree with you.

Sometimes – they are correct.

You should want to be proven wrong so you can change your mind if you are.

Right?

Energy without clarity is noise

Energy follows purpose.  

Without purpose, your energy is scattered and meaningless.

If you were going to “get after it”, what are you getting after?

When clear and focused, you can do amazing things.

What is your purpose?  Your goal?  Your reason for getting up?

You are what you think you are

Character, good or bad, is not accidental. 

It is shaped by persistent thinking over time.

Whatever you think you are, that is what you are.  

You can change what/who you are by changing who you believe you are.

Who do you say you are?